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Celess — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 16:47:17 GMT

Not sure how much of a heritic this makes me... http://www.wowwiki.com/AddOn_Studio_2010

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t1m1976 — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 22:18:50 GMT

I agree with the people who say having no visual designer was a bad move. I feel this is a de-evolution on their part and should be labeled as such; how can you evolve by removing something? I agree that there are already so many code/txt editors for people to use with syntax high-lights (intelliSense) already. I feel the team working on this project should have worked to include the visual editor and continued to work through the bugs so that this project could be cutting-edge and above the others. A lot of code/txt editors, that do the same thing as this, are smaller and not full of ugly as Visual Studio is. If there's no visual designer, there's no point to further branding myself with Microsoft products.

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vabatta — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 13:30:57 GMT

But, this project is dead or in a remote future we can downlaod LUA Studio?

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DavidJ61 — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 11:10:16 GMT

"ericfine Nov 13 2010 at 2:53 AM "Visual" Studio without "Visual Designer"?" No, that's why it is going to be called LUA Studio...

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zys924 — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 17:09:48 GMT

Code-Only editor sounds fine and more practical than ever. Syntax highlighting and simple intellisense are not the crucial parts which are commonly seen and easily done by some other editors already. If a dynamic intellisense system in which user-defined variables including tables and functions can be recognized comes out, it will be a great revolution. I will of course dedicate myself into this miracle editor and discard the stupid Notepad++~~

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ericfine — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 02:53:51 GMT

"Visual" Studio without "Visual Designer"?

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MrExillion — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 15:03:24 GMT

Check out my suggestion concerning #Develop under Discussion... maby youll agree and change oppinion.

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bhaelochon — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 21:14:56 GMT

OK, so we should use Lua Studio. Where do we find it, exactly?

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another — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 15:30:09 GMT

Oh, thats remind me *nix. First you got simple 2KB source, then you should download small program to build and finally you downloading gigabytes of something that conflicts with each other. And more than that you can't cleanup your system anymore. Short story: I have SDK 2008, VC Express 2008, C# 2008 Express. And to making small WoW addon I should buy full Visual Studio (Express can't even open solution) and fix project myself for WoW 3.5 compatibility. This is too much... Back to Notepad++.

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TiaMaster — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 17:55:12 GMT

So is this dead or what?

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warcraftps — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:51:14 GMT

AddOn Studio for World of Warcraft v2 BETA 2 works great as long as you don't install Patch 3.3.5

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warcraftps — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:11:29 GMT

Cutting out the Visual Designer? That is the only reason i use this app.. There are so many code editors out there that it's silly!! Even if the designer doesn't look the same as in the game, it can be tweeked later. nodesigner = "No point in using the new app"; Error: Big mistake cutting out the designer.. Find another app..

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warcraftps — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:10:06 GMT

Cutting out the Visual Designer? That is the only reason i use this app.. There are so many code editors out there that it's silly!! Even if the designer doesn't look the same as in the game, it can be tweeked later. No designer = "No point in using the new app"; Error: Big mistake cutting out the designer.. Find another app..

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magicsimon — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 04:03:19 GMT

Sad about the Visual Designer:( Ofcourse im gonna ask of a date, likely for the Lua Studio? So their aint gonna be any visual at all? A feature that could show the frames? Keep up the good work:D Simon

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evolution — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 11:43:18 GMT

Yet another little issue I ran into here, regarding the HtmlAgilityPack step - if you get an error message from msbuild that says something about "9.00 violates enumeration constraint of <bunch of lower versions here>", make sure the version of msbuild you're using is from .NET 3.5 (from the same command prompt, use the 'where msbuild' command to see which file Windows is going to use - you want the one from C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.5\. I also needed to add the following parameter: /toolsversion:3.5

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danielfe — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 23:49:24 GMT

Important Notice on the future of AddOn Studio

Please read about Lua Studio - The Evolution of AddOn Studio for World of Warcraft!

AddOn Studio FAQ

Last updated Feb: 15th

What is AddOn Studio for World of Warcraft?

AddOn Studio (AOS) is an open source development environment designed to bring a Visual Studio-like experience to building World of Warcraft AddOns. For more information on exactly what AOS does, check out the list of features below.

Where can I download it?

A new Beta build of AddOn Studio is now available (Feb 15) and has been updated to work with Wrath of the Lich King. You can Download it here

Does AddOn Studio require Visual Studio to be installed?

No, AddOn Studio works independently of Visual Studio. If you do have Visual Studio installed, AddOn Studio will work just fine.

I'm having problems installing AddOn Studio, what should I do?

First try installing the Visual Studio Shell link in the release notes. If that doesn't work, please file a bug and include 1) Operating System, 2).NET Framework version installed, 3)installation log.

What features are included in AddOn Studio?

How was AddOn Studio created? How can I build my own Visual Studio like IDE?

AddOn Studio is built using the free Visual Studio Shell. is build developers looking for examples of how to build their own IDE. For more information on extensibility or the Visual Studio Shell, please visit .

Can I Build/Compile AddOn Studio?

If you would like to contribute to AddOn Studio for World of Warcraft or you just want to build it yourself, visit Download it here and follow the Build Notes described there.

Add-ins for AddOn Studio for World of Warcraft

AddOn Studio itself is extensibile the same way Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 and other Visual Studio Shell products are. See the Add-ins page for add-ins developed for AddOn Studio by the authors and the community. To build your own add-in for AddOn Studio, refer to Build your own add-in for AddOn Studio and the Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 SDK.

What are some recommended resources for learning how to build Warcraft AddOns?

Start by downloading and installing the World of Warcraft Interface AddOn Kit and following the included tutorial
WowWiki's UI Beginner's Guide
WowWiki AddOn Programming Tutorial
WowWiki How To Articles
Lua Language Reference
Book: World of Warcraft Programming: A Guide and Reference for Creating WoW Addons - A complete reference for building AddOns
Book: Coding4Fun: 10 .NET Programming Projects for Wiimote, YouTube, World of Warcraft, and More - Chapter 3 is a .NET developer's guide to building AddOns and shows how an in-game RSS Reader is built
Wow Programming Tools & Utilities

Who has worked on or contributed to AddOn Studio?

This project wouldn't have happened if it wasn't for: Catherine Crim, Shawn Nandi, Anson Horton, James Lau, and the amazing team at EPAM including Attila Szucs, Tamas Herner, Gabor Ratky and Attila Kisko. Special thanks also to the Microsoft World of Warcraft alias for helping us with the bug bash! Custom artwork created by Lisa Jones, Game Artist.

AddOn Studio for World of Warcraft is not created or endorsed by Blizzard Entertainment. World of Warcraft is a registered trademark of Blizzard Entertainment, Inc.

Updated Wiki: Lua Studio - The Evolution of AddOn Studio for World of Warcraft

danielfe — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 23:29:53 GMT

Lua Studio - The Evolution of AddOn Studio for World of Warcraft

Overview

Hey folks, as we've "gone dark" for a while on this project, I wanted to give a quick update on where we are with the development of this project and our goals going forward.

Goals

Goal #1 - Improve stability and bugs and make the project maintainable - One of the biggest challenges we've had is maintaining the code base and being responsive to additions/updates.
Goal #2 - Be a good code example for the Visual Studio Shell - We should be a great example of what a customized IDE experience can be, including using best practices for language, colorization, project system files, and more, including using Visual Studio 2010.
Goal #3 - Make a general purpose Lua IDE - A lot of you were asking for the syntax colorization, and editing environment of AddOn Studio to use for any Lua project, without the Warcraft specific content.
Goal #4 - Build an extensibility model for games - Similarly, Warcraft is one game that uses the Lua runtime, but there are many others, and game companies should feel free to pick up and distribute their own IDE.

The Bad news: Cutting the Visual Designer

One of the hard decisions we had to make was that we had to cut the visual editor. This was done for a number of reasons, we feel we never got the experience right and complex addons never rendered correctly inside the IDE and Blizzard doesn't expose an API to preview/render FrameXML either. The visual designer was also the #1 cause of tool issues.

While this is a tough thing to do right, it probably could be done correctly, but we don't have the resources to provide a visual editor for Warcraft (or for each Lua-enabled game) and it was the #1 cause of tool issues. Going forward we will include code-only editing for FrameXML files, but it does provide XML IntelliSense (just not a visual designer).

For those of you who do like the visual editor, you can continue to use the current version of AddOn Studio, but we don't have the resources to support that.

Introducing Lua Studio - the evolution of AddOn Studio for World of Warcraft

Better installation experience
Enables standalone Lua development
Works using the Visual Studio 2010
Includes Warcraft support: FrameXML code editing and FrameXML IntelliSense, custom project and item templates, warcraft TOC (Table of Contents) file support
Provide a solid Lua Code editing experience - syntax colorization and highlighting, IntelliSense, navigation, Find/Replace, Bookmarks, GoTo Line, Full Screen mode

Release Cycle

We are planning to release a beta of Lua Studio soon that will include most of the key features listed above.

Going Forward

We are also looking at adding 1-2 more "light-up" features that we could build given our resource constraints, like:

Integrated debugger (for Lua files only)
Rename Refactoring

As always, your feedback is important to us and thank you for your support over the years.

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RGabo — Wed, 06 May 2009 07:36:41 GMT

AddOn Studio FAQ

Last updated Feb: 15th

What is AddOn Studio for World of Warcraft?

Where can I download it?

A new Beta build of AddOn Studio is now available (Feb 15) and has been updated to work with Wrath of the Lich King. You can Download it here

Does AddOn Studio require Visual Studio to be installed?

No, AddOn Studio works independently of Visual Studio. If you do have Visual Studio installed, AddOn Studio will work just fine.

I'm having problems installing AddOn Studio, what should I do?

What features are included in AddOn Studio?

Visual Design Surface
AddOn Studio includes a set of toolbox controls that you can drag-and-drop onto the designer to visually design the layout of your addon including popular Visual Studio features like Snap lines which enable you to visually align controls.

FrameXML Tree View
Visualize the hierarchy of nested controls in your FrameXML file including virtual controls

Visually Browse Warcraft Resources (MPQ files)
You can now browse and add Warcraft resources directly into your addons including class ability icons (Druid, Rogue, Priest, etc), common frames (Bank, Calendar, Chat, Guild, etc), and Common Buttons (close, scrolling, main menu, etc)

Visually Design Frame Backdrops
AddOn Studio includes a Backdrop editor tool to easily design and visualize an XML Frame.

Default to XML View for Advanced Developers
For advanced developers that want to hand-code FrameXML files, AddOn Studio now includes the option to turn off the Visual Designer and just use the XML editing tools.

WowProgramming-powered IntelliSense
The IntelliSense engine has been updated using the Wow Programming API Reference. It includes detailed parameters and return types.

FrameXML IntelliSense
AddOn Studio provides built-in support for FrameXML schema validation for addon developers who want to manually edit and customize FrameXML markup (see readme for setup notes).

Auto-Generate AddOn Table of Contents (TOC)
AddOn Studio also takes the hassle out of building the Table of Contents (TOC) file by automatically building it based on what files are in your project. You can easily change the order of files in the TOC.

Visually add Table of Contents (TOC) Metadata
AddOn Studio also makes it easy to add metadata to your Tables of Contents (TOC) file including Title, Author, version, and a number of other common metadata attributes as well as custom attributes.

Auto-Generate Lua Events - The Addon Studio property window shows all of the properties and events available for a Lua control or frame and enables one-click creation of event handlers like a buttonOnClick event.

Other Features - AddOn Studio includes lots more features including automatic deployment to your Warcraft directory, Task Window, Error List for FrameXML and Lua parsing errors, TGA and MP3 file format support, powerful search-and-replace features, and its fully extensible so that developers can build additional tools and editors to improve addon development.

How was AddOn Studio created? How can I build my own Visual Studio like IDE?
AddOn Studio is built using the free Visual Studio Shell. is build developers looking for examples of how to build their own IDE. For more information on extensibility or the Visual Studio Shell, please visit .

Can I Build/Compile AddOn Studio?
If you would like to contribute to AddOn Studio for World of Warcraft or you just want to build it yourself, visit Download it here and follow the Build Notes described there.

Add-ins for AddOn Studio for World of Warcraft
AddOn Studio itself is extensibile the same way Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 and other Visual Studio Shell products are. See the Add-ins page for add-ins developed for AddOn Studio by the authors and the community. To build your own add-in for AddOn Studio, refer to Build your own add-in for AddOn Studio and the Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 SDK.

What are some recommended resources for learning how to build Warcraft AddOns?

Start by downloading and installing the World of Warcraft Interface AddOn Kit and following the included tutorial

WowWiki's UI Beginner's Guide

WowWiki AddOn Programming Tutorial

WowWiki How To Articles

Lua Language Reference

Book: World of Warcraft Programming: A Guide and Reference for Creating WoW Addons - A complete reference for building AddOns

Book: Coding4Fun: 10 .NET Programming Projects for Wiimote, YouTube, World of Warcraft, and More - Chapter 3 is a .NET developer's guide to building AddOns and shows how an in-game RSS Reader is built

Wow Programming Tools & Utilities

Who has worked on or contributed to AddOn Studio?
This project wouldn't have happened if it wasn't for: Catherine Crim, Shawn Nandi, Anson Horton, James Lau, and the amazing team at EPAM including Attila Szucs, Tamas Herner, Gabor Ratky and Attila Kisko. Special thanks also to the Microsoft World of Warcraft alias for helping us with the bug bash! Custom artwork created by Lisa Jones, Game Artist.

AddOn Studio for World of Warcraft is not created or endorsed by Blizzard Entertainment. World of Warcraft is a registered trademark of Blizzard Entertainment, Inc.

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danielfe — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 06:31:42 GMT

AddOn Studio FAQ
Last updated Feb: 15th

What is AddOn Studio for World of Warcraft?
AddOn Studio (AOS) is an open source development environment designed to bring a Visual Studio-like experience to building World of Warcraft AddOns. For more information on exactly what AOS does, check out the list of features below.

Where can I download it?
A new Beta build of AddOn Studio is now available (Feb 15) and has been updated to work with Wrath of the Lich King. You can Download it here

Does AddOn Studio require Visual Studio to be installed?
No, AddOn Studio works independently of Visual Studio. If you do have Visual Studio installed, AddOn Studio will work just fine.

I'm having problems installing AddOn Studio, what should I do?
First try installing the Visual Studio Shell link in the release notes. If that doesn't work, please file a bug and include 1) Operating System, 2).NET Framework version installed, 3)installation log.

What features are included in AddOn Studio?

Visual Design Surface
AddOn Studio includes a set of toolbox controls that you can drag-and-drop onto the designer to visually design the layout of your addon including popular Visual Studio features like Snap lines which enable you to visually align controls.

FrameXML Tree View
Visualize the hierarchy of nested controls in your FrameXML file including virtual controls

Visually Browse Warcraft Resources (MPQ files)
You can now browse and add Warcraft resources directly into your addons including class ability icons (Druid, Rogue, Priest, etc), common frames (Bank, Calendar, Chat, Guild, etc), and Common Buttons (close, scrolling, main menu, etc)

Visually Design Frame Backdrops
AddOn Studio includes a Backdrop editor tool to easily design and visualize an XML Frame.

Default to XML View for Advanced Developers
For advanced developers that want to hand-code FrameXML files, AddOn Studio now includes the option to turn off the Visual Designer and just use the XML editing tools.

WowProgramming-powered IntelliSense
The IntelliSense engine has been updated using the Wow Programming API Reference. It includes detailed parameters and return types.

FrameXML IntelliSense
AddOn Studio provides built-in support for FrameXML schema validation for addon developers who want to manually edit and customize FrameXML markup (see readme for setup notes).
image:xmlintellisense.png]

*Auto-Generate AddOn Table of Contents (TOC) *
AddOn Studio also takes the hassle out of building the Table of Contents (TOC) file by automatically building it based on what files are in your project. You can easily change the order of files in the TOC.

Visually add Table of Contents (TOC) Metadata
AddOn Studio also makes it easy to add metadata to your Tables of Contents (TOC) file including Title, Author, version, and a number of other common metadata attributes as well as custom attributes.

Auto-Generate Lua Events - The Addon Studio property window shows all of the properties and events available for a Lua control or frame and enables one-click creation of event handlers like a button_OnClick event.

Other Features - AddOn Studio includes lots more features including automatic deployment to your Warcraft directory, Task Window, Error List for FrameXML and Lua parsing errors, TGA and MP3 file format support, powerful search-and-replace features, and its fully extensible so that developers can build additional tools and editors to improve addon development.

How was AddOn Studio created? How can I build my own Visual Studio like IDE?
AddOn Studio is built using the free Visual Studio Shell . is build developers looking for examples of how to build their own IDE. For more information on extensibility or the Visual Studio Shell, please visit .

Can I Build/Compile AddOn Studio?
If you would like to contribute to AddOn Studio for World of Warcraft or you just want to build it yourself, visit Download it here and follow the Build Notes described there.

Add-ins for AddOn Studio for World of Warcraft
AddOn Studio itself is extensibile the same way Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 and other Visual Studio Shell products are. See the Add-ins page for add-ins developed for AddOn Studio by the authors and the community. To build your own add-in for AddOn Studio, refer to Build your own add-in for AddOn Studio and the Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 SDK.

What are some recommended resources for learning how to build Warcraft AddOns?

Start by downloading and installing the World of Warcraft Interface AddOn Kit and following the included tutorial
WowWiki's UI Beginner's Guide
WowWiki AddOn Programming Tutorial
WowWiki How To Articles
Lua Language Reference
Book: World of Warcraft Programming: A Guide and Reference for Creating WoW Addons - A complete reference for building AddOns
Book: Coding4Fun: 10 .NET Programming Projects for Wiimote, YouTube, World of Warcraft, and More - Chapter 3 is a .NET developer's guide to building AddOns and shows how an in-game RSS Reader is built
Wow Programming Tools & Utilities

Who has worked on or contributed to AddOn Studio?
This project wouldn't have happened if it wasn't for: Catherine Crim, Shawn Nandi, Anson Horton, James Lau, and the amazing team at EPAM including Attila Szucs, Gabor Ratky and Attila Kisko. Special thanks also to the Microsoft World of Warcraft alias for helping us with the bug bash! Custom artwork created by Lisa Jones, Game Artist.

AddOn Studio for World of Warcraft is not created or endorsed by Blizzard Entertainment. World of Warcraft is a registered trademark of Blizzard Entertainment, Inc.